Sentences with phrase «say placebo effect»

Some say the placebo effect is responsible for the «cures» of CS — how do you explain it in all of our animals?»

She said the placebo effect is one possible reason and attending a clinic to talk about symptoms could help and that hot flushes tend to improve spontaneously with time.

Not exact matches

«Our results indicate that strong performance brands can cause an effect that is akin to a placebo effect,» researcher Frank Germann of the Department of Marketing at the University of Notre Dame said in a press release.

«There's a bit of a placebo effect, because there's not a ton of alcohol in them,» Mawhinney said.

One study even goes so far as to say that the herbs can work, but only as a placebo effect.

It's likely a parental placebo effect, says Jennifer Shu, MD, a pediatrician and coauthor of Heading Home With Your Newborn.

«I'm on the record as saying I absolutely do not believe in the explanations for homeopathy and how it quote unquote works,» she says, before adding: «But I do believe in the placebo effect and it's possible that if a placebo is the best treatment for a lower back pain, for example, then that's what the evidence shows and in a lot of these areas there hasn't been enough research done to really tell that.

«It was successful in the sense that we did see antidepressant effects, with the important caveat that there was no placebo group,» Murrough says.

It may also explain why few placebo - controlled studies have managed to find that gluten has any effect, and why it has been so difficult to find out how gluten may cause problems for non-coeliacs, says Gibson.

«Recent scientific advances have enabled us to identify a trove of neurotransmitters and detect relevant neural brain pathways as well as genetic markers that help explain the biology of the placebo effect,» said Kaptchuk.

«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Fourteen years later, we can say that placebo effects are at the core of what makes medicine a healing profession,» he adds.

«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.

Pinpointing the sweet spot of the pain killing placebo effect could result in the design of more personalized medicine for the 100 million Americans with chronic pain, say investigators.

«The greater the improvement in patients treated with placebo in clinical trials, the more difficult it can be to demonstrate the beneficial effects of pain - relieving medications,» said Robert H. Dworkin, Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurology, and Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

«Given our results,» said lead author Manuel Schabus, «one has to question how much of published neurofeeback effects are due to simple expectations on the side of the participants or, in other words, unspecific placebo effects.»

«Everything that has to do with the elaborate ritual of delivering care could be a target to enhance the placebo effect,» Jensen says.

Jensen says many doctors cripple their chances of leveraging the placebo effect by acting disinterested or lacking confidence with patients.

CEO Isy Goldwasser says the company has devoted three years to ensuring Thync's effects were stronger than placebo, and he calls placebo «the enemy».

«We have long known that there might be ways to tune down the amygdala through biofeedback, meditation, or even the effects of placebos,» said John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

Establishing a link between certain genes and the placebo effect is in its infancy, the researchers say online April 13 in Trends in Molecular Medicine.

«We don't actually know how big of a role genetics play in the placebo effect,» says study coauthor Kathryn Hall, a molecular biologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Dr Stephen Simpson, director of research at Arthritis Research UK, said: «This study emphasises the influence of the placebo effect on pain.

This product did not show a significant effect beyond placebo, according to medical research, says the committee.

«Openly administering a placebo offers new possibilities for using the placebo effect in an ethically justifiable way,» says co-author Professor Jens Gaab, Head of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Basel.

It all starts with the observation that something similar to the placebo effect occurs in many animals, says Peter Trimmer, a biologist at the University of Bristol, UK.

Other studies have shown increased activity in this brain region when people experience the placebo effect, and when their enjoyment of a product — wine, for example — is influenced by its supposed value, Tinnermann says.

«This study opens up a new avenue of studies for brain - based interventions,» he says, «such as targeting the dopamine system» to increase the placebo effect.

But the placebo effect in dementia can be huge, says Spiers - Jones, and can even change body biochemistry.

«Our findings demonstrate the placebo effect can be elicited without deception,» said lead author, Claudia Carvalho, PhD, of ISPA.

«There is no telling what may be down to the placebo effect,» says Arne Akbar at University College London.

«The exciting question is now whether it is possible to train the reward system to make it less receptive to such placebo marketing effects,» says Prof. Weber.

«It sounds like a big fat placebo effect,» he says.

The authors caution, however, that measuring small visual improvements is difficult and that they can't say for sure that the changes were not the result of the immune - suppressing drugs or a placebo effect.

Finding genetic markers for the placebo effect could raise ethical questions about how companies design their clinical trials, Furmark says.

Regarding the G - Shot, Whipple says: «It could be the placebo effect.

They concede that those effects could be due in part to the placebo effect or improvements independent of the procedure, but they say the results are promising enough to warrant a phase II trial in 108 patients at four different clinical centers, which is underway now.

Now researchers at the INSEAD - Sorbonne University Behavioral Lab and the University of Bonn said they have discovered how the brain lights up when under the sway of the placebo effect, a potential step in figuring out how to train people to recognize when they are falling victim to this habit of human nature.

«Ultimately, the reward and motivation system plays a trick on us,» said INSEAD post-doctoral fellow Liane Schmidt, the lead author of a study on wine and the placebo effect published this week in the journal Scientific Reports.

«Not only do placebo effects exist with medications — if you take a pill and believe it's going to help you, it's going to help you more — but the exact same could be happening with behavior,» said Zahrt.

The placebo effect has long been known to influence belief, but researchers say they've discovered how the brain lights up when under its influence.

«We really don't fully understand what migraines are, or what the placebo effect is,» said Danesh, who was not involved in the study.

Many are low - strength yam - based products, and putting them on isnt going to hurt, she says; at best, there may be a placebo effect.

Dr. Hall says he doesn't discourage his patients from taking saw palmetto if the placebo effect appears to be working.

«We can't show, on the one hand, that it's better than placebo, but some men do have an improvement in their symptoms, and there seem to be virtually no side effects,» he says.

I can't rule out the placebo effect (or a host of other confounding factors), but I can say that I'm a believer in the daily morning light exposure effect.

After all, says Ted Kaptchuk, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard - wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS), «These effects are at the core of the healing profession.»

That's why almost anything could have a placebo effect,» Dr Pan says.

«TENS likely has a placebo effect, but its safety and side effect profile makes it an ideal tool in approaching chronic pain syndromes,» says Derk Krieger, MD, PhD, a neurologist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

As for the color's power as an appetite suppressant, it's possible it may have a placebo effect, says Health's contributing nutrition editor, Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD. «Some may see the color and think about candy, and pink frosted cupcakes, while others might see the color and feel a sense of calm and centeredness that helps them better tune into their hunger and fullness cues.»